CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-15558

7.0 HIGH Published 2026-03-04 Modified 2026-07-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2026-03-04
Last modified
2026-07-15
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

Docker CLI for Windows searches for plugin binaries in C:\ProgramData\Docker\cli-plugins, a directory that does not exist by default. A low-privileged attacker can create this directory and place malicious CLI plugin binaries (docker-compose.exe, docker-buildx.exe, etc.) that are executed when a victim user opens Docker Desktop or invokes Docker CLI plugin features, and allow privilege-escalation if the docker CLI is executed as a privileged user. This issue affects Docker CLI: through 29.1.5 and Windows binaries acting as a CLI-plugin manager using the github.com/docker/cli/cli-plugins/manager https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/docker/[email protected]+incompatible/cli-plugins/manager  package, such as Docker Compose. This issue does not impact non-Windows binaries, and projects not using the plugin-manager code.

Affected configurations

• docker command line interface (<= 29.1.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References